文學小說 (驚悚)
更新日期:
2015-06-03
The Captive Condition
Kevin Keating
Pantheon
July 2015
288pp
書籍編號:
01-1882
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● 內文簡介

一座看似悠閒的中西部大學城,發生一連串的恐怖事件,牽涉其中的人們背負錯綜複雜的情緒和難以捉摸的心理,恐懼而陰暗。

艾米莉(Emily Ryan)被人發現溺死於自家游泳池,體內檢測出含有大量的巴比妥酸鹽和酒精。自她死後,一系列的災難而離奇事件接踵而至......

艾米麗的情人是位大學教授,突然發現自己對她的雙胞胎女兒應負起責任,可是她們的敏銳目光令他感到內疚和痛苦,使得他拼命試圖隱藏這樁感情不讓妻子知道;一個名叫蛋形洋娃娃的低級罪犯,接管一撞隱居老藝術家的別墅。他的年輕學徒受到內心惡魔的控制,伺機報復教授的罪惡勾當。一樁離奇的命案,令這座小鎮在日落之後陷入頹廢的生活,並主導鎮民做出令人匪夷所思的舉動,最後陷入一場不可逆轉的結局。

小說以女屍命案揭開故事序幕,照亮人們內在最邪惡的力量,充滿黑暗、仇恨以及孕育而生的殺傷力。

 

● 作者簡介

After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, KEVIN P. KEATING became a professor of English and began teaching at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, and Lorain County Community College. His essays and stories have appeared in more than fifty literary journals, and his first novel, The Natural Order of Things, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in Cleveland.

 

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